Everything about Biometrics

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BiometricsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Biometrics recognition using deep learning: a surveyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Human Behavior UnderstandingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A Biometrics Invited Paper. The Analysis and Selection of Variables in Linear RegressionCited 1,498 times
5. Go sideways: Private biometricsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: E-commerce identification and identification typesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A Biometrics Invited Paper. The Analysis and Selection of Variables in Linear Regression

  R. R. Hocking · 1976 · Biometrics · 1,498 citations

• Enhancing security and privacy in biometrics-based authentication systems

  N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell, R. M. Bolle · 2001 · IBM Systems Journal · 1,280 citations

• Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data

  Yevgeniy Dodis, Rafail Ostrovsky, Leonid Reyzin · 2008 · SIAM Journal on Computing · 1,204 citations

• Information fusion in biometrics

  Arun Ross, Anil Jain · 2003 · Pattern Recognition Letters · 1,107 citations

• Biometrics: A Tool for Information Security

  A.K. Jain, A. Ross, S. Pankanti · 2006 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 753 citations

• Image understanding for iris biometrics: A survey

  Kevin W. Bowyer, Karen Hollingsworth, Patrick J. Flynn · 2008 · Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 688 citations

• A novel biometrics method to secure wireless body area sensor networks for telemedicine and m-health

  C.C.Y. Poon, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Shu-Di Bao · 2006 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 446 citations

• A survey on biometric cryptosystems and cancelable biometrics

  Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl · 2011 · EURASIP Journal on Information Security · 443 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Biometrics recognition using deep learning: a survey

  Shervin Minaee, Amirali Abdolrashidi, Hang Su · 2023 · Artificial Intelligence Review · 219 citations

• LDCNet: Limb Direction Cues-Aware Network for Flexible HPE in Industrial Behavioral Biometrics Systems

  Tingting Liu, Hai Liu, Bing Yang · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 143 citations

• Biometrics: Trust, But Verify

  Anil K. Jain, Debayan Deb, Joshua J. Engelsma · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science · 111 citations

• A Review of Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Biometrics

  Wencheng Yang, Song Wang, Hui Cui · 2023 · Sensors · 106 citations

• Eye Know You Too: Toward Viable End-to-End Eye Movement Biometrics for User Authentication

  Dillon Lohr, Oleg V. Komogortsev · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 93 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Human Behavior UnderstandingAlbert Ali Salah · 2011
• Quantitative investigations in the biosciences using MinitabJohn Eddison · 1999
• 📕Signal and image processing for biometricsAmine Naït-Ali, Regis Fournier · 2012
• Biometrics in a Data Driven WorldSinjini Mitra, Mikhail Gofman · 2016
• The Science of BiometricsRavindra Das · 2018
• 📕Health and Vital StatisticsBernard Benjamin · 1968
• 📕Touchless Fingerprint BiometricsRuggero Donida Labati, Vincenzo Piuri · 2015
• Practical BiometricsJulian Ashbourn · 2003

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